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Pembroke Pocket Garden
London, SE17 1QR, United Kingdom
Pembroke Pocket Garden is a pocket of space in the heart of Walworth for people to get together, experiment with growing and sharing food, and have creative fun along the way… The container garden is located within the grounds of the community centre Pembroke House, and is entirely what the community makes of it. The space has lots of potential, not only as a place for experimenting with ways of growing food, but also as a venue for events, exhibitions, pop up cafes, outdoor cinema, workshops and more… Pembroke Pocket Garden welcomes new folk all year around, so if you are interested in getting involved and being part of bringing this community space to life, please get in touch by contacting pembrokecommunitygarden@gmail.com
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Monday 23 May 2011

Mon May 23, 2011 - Surrey Docks Farm

Capital Growth Southwark

Today my community met with all the other food growing groups in Southwark.

A great day starts with a great cake



Can you guess what kind it is?

A fantastic tour of the farm


Michael feeding some new friends


The facilities are top notch








The farm is very family friendly, there were kids everywhere.


My community made many new friends over a delicious lunch.










Sun May 22, 2011 - Windy Weekend

I thought Saturday was windy but, then came Sunday.


A gust got under my growhouse and whooosh!



I imagine for my little ones it was like a ride on Alton Towers' Oblivion

With a little bit of TLC everything was right as rain.

Thursday 19 May 2011

Wed May 18, 2011 - The 4 Rs



All of my community was quite busy today...


Rescuer

but, the real hero today was Dave


Here he is, too busy to even have a picture taken. Dave went to the garden centre this morning to pick up some emergency supplies. All very last minute, all very fabulous!

Rearranging

In order to aid my watering the community moved me around today.




Repotting

All of my little ones had outgrown their pots.



Rock


You may not know this about me but, I do enjoy a good boogie.


Orange Rock Corps Volunteering Day

Pembroke House

Sat 4th June 2011

1-5pm


 This session will involve between 50-75 volunteers working on the garden and inside the lower hall. In exchange for 4 hours voluntary work, each volunteer will get a ticket to a pop music gig at Wembley.

The work outside will involve building benches, tables, trellises for the wall, a couple of raised beds, archways, a compost heap and some ladder containers. Inside, around 20-30 volunteers will be decorating plant pots and packaging them up with soil and seeds, to give out to at least 100 households in the area, as part of the one pot pledge scheme.

If you would like to participate in this one-off event, please register with the website www.orangerockcorps.co.uk , and inform Kathleen that you have done so.

If you have registered, it is essential that you turn up so that you can claim your concert ticket.

Lunch & Refreshments Provided
 
Please let me know if you have any further questions regarding this event.

Kathleen

020 7703 3803
kathleen.murray@pembrokehouse. org.uk
Thursday 12 May 2011

Wed May 6, 2011 - Our First Crop

How's this for a wheelbarrow?







Here are a couple of very proud parents.



Wed May 6, 2011 - The Blue Boxes

I love how my community makes use of the council's old and disused "Blue Recycling Boxes".





And so much care goes into making sure all the plants get along with each other.





Each week I grow bigger and bigger.